The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-12-08
WHAT OTHERS SAY.
Brief Extracts From Editorial Columns.

difficulty. ought to surrender to the diff
culty.-NelCS.
As We could not get majority of the
people to accept our views il is useless
now to continue the fight in a visionary
and impracticable way. - ROSeburgll
PlQindedteT.
situated for manufacturing and CONNER
way of the great inland empire.-DdlleS
TimeS-MOuntGineer.
1t would not be strange if the Canadian
fishery dispute should be settled by
American fishermen turning their atten-
tion TO the magnificent fishing fields on
this side the continent.-S. +. Alta.
If ever a man deserved a medal for
bravery il is the engineer of the schooner
Leo, at Seattle, who eXtinguIshed fire
on board, although he knew there were
$50 cases of dynamite Oh the yessel.-S.
Il. Chronicle.
Why don't Herr Most and the rest of
his ilk 60 out to Arizona and Join the
Apaches? That's the best place in the
world for them. Let Most be named Il
nt-have-any-g government in mine. y
East OregOTlidn.
The Spokane Falls paper says ''the
gentle chinook Is TdSpinq the newly fallen
snow from the face of the earth" A
chinook that "rasps" has our permission
10 remain on the other side of the noun
NclrS.
What is wanted, if our cities are to be
cleanly governed, Is not an elegant lndig-
nation that evaporates in fine speeches,
but grim and settled purpose, which
bears fruit in plodding political work
NeiC York Commercial Advertiser.
The Republican party needs a candi-
date for President next year who can
carry New York; but one who can carry
Indiana and Connecticut, or Indiana and
New Jersey, will answer the purpose quite
as well.-St. Louis GlObc-DcmOcrdt.
Having lived in the State Capital of
Oregon prior to coming to this territory,
and having lived in Olympia. the Terri
torial Capital, for more than % years, we
state candidly that we believe the State
capital is a curse TO any town.-OlyInpiG
Transcript.
Notwithstanding there are matters
that more or less detract from such a
degree of progressiyeneSs as we desire to
our march Is onward and up
ward, and the star of destiny beckons
Portland 10 front rank in the zenith
Welcome.
Politics will take a man from obscurity
and make him great, and take a promi-
nent man and send him to obscurity;
but while honest men become thieves
through political influence, thieves have
never been made honest by politics.-NelC
Orleans Picdyune.
80 90 fha
and election of good men to the various
city offices. The positions involving the
most trust and responsibility are those
Of members of the council. There is no
remuneration of any kind-in
this Office, and very little honor or glory.
Weston Leader.
1t is not probable that Dakota, Wash
lngton or Montana will be admitted 10
the Union before the next Presidential
election. The former ought to have been
long ago, but there Is now no
to admit alternately Wing
Or Republican and Democratic territories
as before the wars. +. Bulletin.
Smith-That paragraph in the Daily
HOICier touched you up rather severely
Brown. Brown-Oh, yes;
don't mind that sort of thing, however.
The world will always contain fools, you
know. II suppose SO. If there were no
fools there wouldn't be anything for
those fellows TO write about, / suppose"
-BinghGmptOn Republican.
The savings banks of New Hampshire
hold $4,000, 900 in mortgages on Western
farms. That Is to say the wage-workers
Of New Hampshire, through the medium
Of the banks, have loaned the western
80 Nl...-
Ings. Now, when Henry George takes
the land away from the western farmers
what becomes of the money borrowed of
the wage-workers?-S. +. alta.
In 1867 steel rails were worth Sl66 per
ton. In those days the United States
a few tons more than two
thousand annually. In 1886 the produc-
ton had increased to l,574.703 tons, and
the price had fallen to $3.50. A year
previous $3.50 per ton was the ruling
price. These are hard figures for the
who contends that protec-
ton enhances the cost to the consumer
5. +. Chronicle.
The president has made a notable de-
parture from established usage IN limit
ing his message to congress to the dis
cussion of a single subject. From one
since the usual abundance
of detail in these documents is made up
by restatement of matters already fa-
miliar; but from another point of view
il is a wise eXpedient in that ii avoids
which might be found en-
in future exigencies of poll
The men who sell Chinese certificates
Id a. Nal- 10,
pagne baths on salaries of $1,000 per
year, IL San Francisco, are going the
way of the iury-fixers. One of them,
who was bailed out the other day, has
skipped the country, preferring exile to
San Quentin. The Hoffman and SAWYER
boodlers, who are getting seventeen dol
lars out of every habeas corpus case
brought by the Chinese companies before
Uncles Ogden and Lorenzo, are in no
danger. They are on the inside of the
table and dealing for the percentage of
the game."-Sunddy Mercury.
There is a difference of a little more
than eighteen years between the first
spike driving on this road, in East Port
land, and the concluding ceremony SO
soon to take place. Many of the chief
actors upon the first occasion have passed
TO the land of shadows. Change has
been busy, and enterprise, reaching out
in various directions, has accomplished a
great deal in the line of growth and pros
perity for the great northwest. The
completion of this road will be another
link in the slowly forged chain of pros
perity wrought out by industrious hands
and hopeful hearts, and as such it will
be welcome.-Portland Telegram.
Personal.
NJ. y. Ii. FrOlichstein. of Mobile. Ala.